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<h1>Introduction to Pinyomi </h1>
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<h1> Brief introduction to Pinyomi </h1>

<p>Japanese and Chinese people have advantages when they study each other's
language, as Japanese kanji derived from Chinese hanzi. Pinyomi is a Japanese
<-> Chinese dictionary interface which enables a Japanese to lookup a Chinese
word by using possible kanji or kana readings, and a Chinese to lookup a
Japanese kanji word by using hanzi or pinyin readings. Pinyomi is an ongoing
project led by Zhihui Jin in Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii's lab. The system was
originally developed by Jin and Lars Yencken.

<p>The Pinyomi system is named after the Chinese word Pinyin(拼音) and the
Japanese word Yomi(読み). Both of them means prounciation in Chinese and
Japanese respectively, and we just combine these two words together since
Pinyomi system deal with the word lookup problem between these two langauges.
Kana Lookup For Chinese Words


<h1>Kana Lookup For Chinese Words</h1>

<p>When Japanese persons see a Chinese word, for example "生活", unless they
know this Chinese word very well, they will naturally use the Japanese reading
for this word, rather than using the Chinese pronunciation. If they wish to
look up the Chinese reading, it may be difficult. Current dictionaries would
need them to find "生" and "活" separately using strokes or radicals, but this
would take a long time!

<p>Since Japanese people can pronunce the Japanese word "生活" in Japanese kana as
"せいかつ", why not use Japanese hiragana or katakana to look up this Chinese
word? This is what the Pinyomi dictionary system allows you to do.


<p>Here are some examples: <br>
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<th>Chinese Word</th>
<th>Possible Queries</th>
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<td>国民生活</td>
<td>"こく　みん　せい　かつ" </td>
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<td>日报</td>
<td>"にっ　ほう", 	"ひ　ぽう", 	"にち　ぽう" </td>
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<td>不好意思</td>
<td>"ふ　こう　い　し", 	"ぶ　こう　い　し", 	"ふ　こう　うい　おも"</td>
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<td>专利申请</td>
<td>"?　り　しん　せい", 	"?　り　しょう　せい"</td>
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<td>你好</td>
<td>"?　こう", "?　よし" </td>
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</table>




<h1> Pinyin Lookup For Japanese Words </h1>

<p>When Chinese see a Japanese word, for example "非常口", unless he know this
Japanese word very well, it will be very natural for him to pronunce this word
as "fei chang kou" in a Chinese way , rather than "ひじょうぐち" in the
standard Japanese way. Suppose he doesn't know the Japanese pronunciation of
this word, and he want to look up this word in an electronic dictionary, what
can he do ? As current Japanese-Chinese dictionary usually indexes a Japanese
word by using Japanese pronunciation or Kanji string, if the user doesn't know
how to pronunce the word "非常口", he need to input three Japanese Characters
"非 ","常", "口" by some Kanji lookup method based on strokes or radicals, and
then find the word. What an awkard way !

<p>As Chinese can pronunce the Japanese word "非常口" in Chinese pinyin, so a
simple question is : why not use Chinese pinyin to look up this Japanese word ?
So a Chinese can look up Japanese word "非常口" by using Chinese pinyin "fei
chang kou". This is what the Pinyomi dictionary system allows you to do.


<p>Here are some examples: <br>
<table border = 1px> 
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<th>Japanese Word</th>
<th>Possible Queries</th>
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<td>非常口 	</td>
<td>"fei chang kou"</td>
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<tr>
<td>都会人</td>
<td>"du hui ren", "dou hui ren" </td>
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<td>万能插口</td>
<td>"wan neng cha kou",  "wang nen cha kou", "wan nen ca kou",</td>
</tr>

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<td>準備	</td>
<td>"zhun ?"</td>
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<td>森滝 </td>
<td>"sen ?"</td>
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</table>

<h1>Link to old system</h1>
<p> The original system is here : 
<a href="http://apollon.cl.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pinyomi/">
http://apollon.cl.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pinyomi/ </a> <br>
The system was programmed in Python, powered by Django framework. <br>

<b> NO Continuous Maintenence </b> on this version any more, please use the newest
<a href="http://www.cl.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pinyomi/"> Pinyomi-lite </a> instead.

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